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๐ถ Hexagons are the bestagons
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That pan can fit 21 cookies
It can clearly fit 2โต hexagonal cookies!
Isn't it 2โต?
Edit: disregard, I'm clearly blind. Or dumb. Or both.
Voronoi cookies!
I love making chocolate chip cookies, and have refined my technique so a batch of dough fills my two baking sheets perfectly without them smooshing together. The two tricks are using a little more flour and baking soda than the recipe says, so they're a little fluffier and don't spread out so much, and consistent ball size.
I just fill the pan and use cookie cutters after they're baked.
I eat the scraps.
btw anyone know what the onset signs of diabetes is?
Can also put the tray with cookies on it in the freezer, that can help keep them from spreading as much! Then throw it in the oven from frozen like. Or...firmed up like.
Interesting, but just using a little more flour and baking soda seems simpler.
I do both! I like very thick cookies though.
Shame about all the pentagons there.
I suspect having round shape pushing against each other isn't enought to get a hex shape.
In the picture, cookies are tiled such that those in the center are surrounded by 6 other cookies and have a hex shape. Others are surrounded by 2 to 4 cookies and are not hex. So it probably has to do with the tiling.
Cookie Catan!
Bestagon cookies!
ONE. That's how many cookies fit on that tray.
If you're feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.
Dude, if you get the nachos stuck together, that's one nacho.
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Someone hexed those cookies
Du bist eine hexe
The toppings are also cursed.
What have you got against M&M cookies??
This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.
Columnar basalt cookies
Voronoi cookies!
This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.
Yeah, it happens when you pack the circles as densely as possible. If you place them in a grid, they will expand to a grid.
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I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
I've legit been thinking about this since i posted the comment lol. I think the target area should probably be a minimal regular hexagon, but I honestly dont have the mathematical chops to figure it out myself or to know which would be more interesting.
Intuition tells me to either try to reduce the problem to like convex hull or figure out a reasonable way to generate random packings and just monte carlo it a few million times for a close to optimal solution. A reasonable way to generate random packings feels like it would be way harder to implement than it sounds
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me after discovering the voronoi node:
LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating as it should
how do you know that's the back and not the side?
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turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake
But when I do this all the cookies fall out
how hard are you spinning
I think asking which axis would be the question
I thought that was a shadow ๐
But you can get gooey and crunchy in one batch ๐คฃ
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